Despite harsh conditions and the ravages of time, the U.S. flags planted on the moon in the past 43 years are still standing and casting shadows at all but one of the landing sites. This remarkable fact comes to us via images made recently by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, a robotic spacecraft orbiting the […]
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Maybe it’s because NASA’s had its wings clipped by budget cuts, but the Russians have produced some photos of the Earth that are arguably more spectacular than ours. Check out these 121-megapixel images taken by the weather satellite Elektro-L No.1 that capture Earth in one image from 22,369 miles away. It’s the highest-resolution photo of Earth yet.
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